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Law Society of Kenya condemns police brutality on protesters

Anti-riot police brutally beat up one of the anti-IEBC protestors in Nairobi

Law Society of Kenya has come out to strongly condemn police brutality on CORD protestors who were agitating for the overhaul of IEBC commissioners.

“What Kenyans witnessed on 16th May 2016 is nothing less than a horrendous demonstration of a police force managing lawful protests with techniques that certainly predate the 2010 Constitution and have worrying similarity to pre-independence tactics that Kenyans had become familiar with in the decades that followed,” LSK stated in a press statement.

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